This is a really nice well-thought out read about iraq, middle-east, positives, negatives.. Well worth it.

Iraq and MIddle East (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;$sessionid$MTPQ1ZHQBEBCTQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQ YIV0?xml=/opinion/2004/05/11/do1101.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/05/11/ixportal.html)

Bush and Blair must never forget: if they blink, they lose
By Charles Moore
(Filed: 11/05/2004)

Troy, the Brad Pitt version, is coming soon to a cinema near you. It is, as they say in movie credits, "from an idea by" Homer, who called it the Iliad. The Iliad begins during a hiatus in the war against Troy, with the Greeks falling out among themselves. Zeus arranges for a message to come to the Greek king Agamemnon in a dream. It tells him that, if he attacks Troy suddenly and at once, the gods will unite for his success. more (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;$sessionid$MTPQ1ZHQBEBCTQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQ YIV0?xml=/opinion/2004/05/11/do1101.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/05/11/ixportal.html)